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Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Ned Ludd, Mar 12, 2011.

  1. Jose85
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  2. 50Fraud
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    Here's what the Russian car could look like with some elbow grease:

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  3. BeatnikPirate
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    Trying to breathe some new life into this interesting old thread...... Here's a coupla coachbuilt Lincolns, one by Derham and one by Brunn. Also a '40 Ford of unknown origin.
     

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    IMG_0207.JPG six pics 002 (1280x1024).jpg Posted on this thread before,newer and better pictures IMG_0527.JPG of my 33 Fordor Vicky C-400
     
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  7. thinkfink
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    finally found a shot of that car (had been looking for quite some time)...Claire the one off 1937 Matford record racing car.
     

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    some more
     

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    Brewster made a regular business of building "compact" limousines for city use. They started with imported Renault chassis from France, later built their own chassis, at the end they used Ford V8 chassis.

    There exists at least one Brewster that consists of one of their pre 1920 limousine bodies transplanted onto a 1930s Ford chassis when the original chassis wore out or became impossible to repair.
     
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    From the same thread:
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    It belongs to A Racer on here.
     
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    This was shown this past week at the Concours of America in Plymouth, MI. The owner found it in a barn in OK and restored it. I don't recall where he is from.
     
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    I like that car a lot. I'm puzzled by the narrowed rear end, though -- why?
     
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    These days the term "Classic Car" is attached to any POS made before a certain date by those who like to use the term. In the early-mid sixties there was a group across the pond
    who defined the term "Classic Car". They had very rigid standards as to the classification. I was surprised at the time to learn that only one American car was included in their registry. No Duesenbergs, Pierce Arrows, Cords, Auburns, only the 1935 Ford Brewster bodied Town Car. Since it is one of the ugliest creations ever perpetrated on the car buying public I will not offer a photo feel free to google it for yourself.
     
  16. This is my aluminium bodied opera coupe. 5 seater probably built using a cabriolet cowl, firewall and windscreen. Must get stuck into this thing again. Would like to lower the roofline a little. Those cut down Chevy bumpers are long gone.
     
  17. Ned Ludd
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    I must say the heart-grille Brewsters don't do it for me either.

    To me a worse abused term is "Vintage". Properly it means 1919-1930, when applied to cars, and nothing else. It refers not only to the actual span of years but to the artisanal and engineering values then prevalent, e.g. simplicity, candour, balance, seriousness. It is generally agreed that the sale of Bentley to Rolls-Royce in 1930 marked the end of the Vintage era, whereafter Bentleys became "silent sports cars" rather than "les plus rapides camions de course au monde."
     
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    1933 I believe, Australian coach built Ford hearse turned into a hotrod! I remember them carrying a coffin in the back that had been lined with foam insulation to create the world's coolest Esky (beer chiller) too... Very popular at Aussie rod runs!

    Cheers, Glen.
     

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    I saw this Derham-bodied Lincoln yesterday.:cool:
     

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    A rather severely cropped photograph of a '32 Ford Sport Saloon by W.J. Reynolds Ltd.:
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    I shall see if I can find anything else about this one.
     
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    Jensen Ford Shooting Brake:

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    Cool!
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    ... and welcome, FordGlaser. I'll see what I can come up with.

    Edit: I find three other references to your specific car on the Internet, two Russian and one German. The photographs are recent but show some changes of specification e.g. grille shell and bonnet/hood. I find no prior reference.

    A number of features are suggestive. The front-hinged doors are atypical of Gläser's work. I find no match for the bonnet/hood side vents, nor for the beltline profile, which together with the cowl treatment (trafficators?) almost suggest British coachwork. The wheel-arch openings have obviously been reworked at some point to the current small, rectangular shape, perhaps to suit smaller wheels like those fitted (perhaps in response to unavailability of the original tyre size? perhaps in Soviet-era Russia?) The outlines of the original openings are clearly visible. When this happened is anyone's guess.

    Do the headlight buckets fit post-war German Ford headlights? Is the Brewster-like sheetmetal, unpainted in the photo, to the grille shell your own work? What do you have in mind for that?

    Good luck with your project!
     
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    Supposedly a factory picture of a 1936-37 Ford Eifel with the Glaser body.
     

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    Thanks Dawie,
    I have rebuild the grille shell after having found an old picture of the car. Plus there were some sheet metal cut aways left in the booth of the car. We have found out so far, that the Ford is a french car. It has been build in Cologne, but must have been brought to the Elsace (which is not far away of Cologne. The car has many attributes of a Mathis EMY. Until late 1936 the cars have been build equally with Ford chassis and technique. This car is a 1936 Ford. The motor is a french origin motor, I was told by a german Ford specialist. The doors are another hint on a french Mathis-Ford. If you look at a Mathis EMY roadster, you will see the same doors, mounted in the front, and the same bonnet/hood. I go straight with you on the wheel archs. They have been modified. I didn´t do anything yet on them, becaus I want to know when this has been done. The wheels are placed on the car for the sale, so it can be moved. The french Matford had the lights inegrated in the fenders.

    http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2104511&stc=1&d=1388350542
     

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    By the way ... Baie dankie. Ek praat nog 'n bietjie Afrikaans. Ek het grootgeword in Pretoria
     
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  29. Ned Ludd
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    Inderdaad? Waar in Pretoria? Ek het twintig jaar daar deurgebring.
     
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    Een en twintig jaar in Meyerspark, Emmarentia Straat.
     

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